Tag Archives : dry clothes outdoors


Treadle-Sewn Super Sale ends tonight

Order a Granny’s Clothespin Bag for your sweetheart – or mom or laundry lady — this Christmas at a great price. But hurry; our first-ever Treadle Sewn Super Sale ends tonight. We’ve also stocked the shelves with patchwork potholders and place mats in warm fall and sparkling winter colors to brighten your holiday table. With […]

Winter patchwork potholders

Ross Perot

Not Made in China

A popular commercial slogan when I was growing up in the 1960s was Zenith’s “quality goes in before the name goes on.” Incidentally, we had only one TV all the years of my childhood, a tubeless black-and-white Zenith. Back then, we took for granted that first-rate products always would be made in the United States, […]


Clothesline Season is Here

Hooray for springtime — a season of carefree clothes-drying in the Ozarks. I actually dry clothes outside all year, but by mid-March no longer have to worry about sleet covering the wash. And what a winter it has been. Many times, I made a 50-yard dash to snatch the laundry ahead of another snow storm. […]

1944 clothesline

1909 tips for drying clothes outdoors

Why do movie producers allocate mountains of money to depicting the teeniest details, over-the-top costumes, heart-pounding special effects and lavish scenery, yet fail to get it right when showing a routine task such as hand-washing clothes? In a recent popular thriller, two women scrubbed a mass of clothes in a pond, and then toted the […]

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